Obliging Collaborators / Uz spēles LatvijaLatvia 2014

With this full-length documentary, director Pēteris Krilovs delves into an intricate and intriguing period in modern Latvian history, his father's death at the hands of the KGB intertwined with the underhanded game played by Soviet Latvian KGB agents against Swedish-English-American intelligence services. In the 1960s, a book was released and a feature film made, later, a pseudo-documentary TV series produced propagandising how Soviet agents fooled their Western counterparts. This "game" and its players and pawns are the focus of Krilovs' documentary "Uz spēles Latvija". The compelling personal history, the protagonists, the editing of archival materials, distinct and at times ironic, as well as the powerful visuals will help the viewer to navigate these little-known historical events.